An adult workplace learning program at Swarthmore College provides more than a unique forum in which students and staff members can learn from each other. The program also suggests a new model on which similar programs can be based.
A team of geologists from the University of Cincinnati has documented the undersea effects of Hurricane Lenny, a rare November hurricane which tracked west-to-east across the Caribbean in 1999. The damage found along coral reefs is helping paleontologists understand the effects of ancient storms as well.
Roche Bioscience announced the successful validation of a novel mouse genotyping tool. This genotyping tool is expected to speed the development of new diagnostic and treatment agents from genomic research.
A University at Buffalo geologist has used computer models to show that huge lava flows -- called flood basalt eruptions -- that exited the earth's crust relatively slowly, rather than explosively, were capable of dramatic global-scale climate shifts and mass extinctions.
Medicare patients enrolled in managed-care plans were significantly less likely than those with traditional Medicare fee-for-service coverage to receive needed coronary angiography--a potentially lifesaving diagnostic procedure--following a heart attack, even though the procedure is a highly recommended practice (New England Journal of Medicine, 11-15-00).
An extensive new field and laboratory study using cutting-edge scientific techniques may make it possible for archaeologists to pinpoint the quarries that supplied stone for some of the most famous statues and architecture of antiquity.
Thanks to a brand new monitoring device under clinical investigation, Dr. Robert Bourge was able to connect one patientÃs Sunday shortness of breath to an almost-weekly Saturday night dinner date with his girlfriend.
How effectively the body uses the insulin it produces is directly related to risk of developing high blood pressure, reported researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center today at the American Heart Association's annual conference.
American Heart Association's 73rd Scientific Sessions tips include: 1- Blood components indicate risk of rejecting a transplanted heart; 2- Women less likely to get "aggressive" treatment for vessel disease.
Laughter, along with an active sense of humor, may help protect you against a heart attack, according to a new study by cardiologists at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, presented at the American Heart Association's Meeting 11-15-00 in New Orleans.
New study shows that Internet users should check online health information for web site authorship and potential conflicts of interest. (Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 11-00)
1. Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) among patients with human immunodeficiency virus is clustered in specific zip codes; 2. Low birthweight and prematurity increase ozone's effect on asthmatic kids 4 to 9.
To learn how the Earth's climate has varied in the past and how it might change in the future, a university scientist is willing to travel to Antarctica. There, preserved in the ice, he expects to find evidence of atmospheric conditions on Earth hundreds of years ago, before the onset of industrialization.
A study shows that communities that undertake comprehensive prevention strategies can effectively reduce many of the negative outcomes of high-risk drinking.
How on Earth can a future space shuttle mission to the International Space Station lead to a better treatment for diseases? Chemistry professor of Mississippi State University and colleagues he is working with at NASA have discovered that gravity may be the key.
From a routine study of the life span of human skin cells, a University of Wisconsin-Madison research project gave rise to an astonishing accident: A line of skin cells that simply wouldn't die.
Many of the 48 million American smokers will try to quit during the Great American Smokeout on November 16. Here are 10 questions and answers that may help them. They are excerpted from a consumer brochure from the Surgeon General.
Purdue Professor Marc Loudon has great chemistry with his students. Loudon was named the 2000 Indiana Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
New technology developed by engineers at North Carolina State University helps to steer an aircraft and keeps it from stalling by using small jets of air pulsed through small holes near the back of a wing.
Patients in chronic pain are so dissatisfied with the efficacy of their prescription and over-the-counter pain control medications that 78 percent are willing to try new treatments and 43 percent would spend more on a treatment if they knew it would work, according to a U.S. survey.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's most important criterion for assessing the safety of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository can be misleading, due to large uncertainties in its results.
University of Michigan professor and materials scientist, has discovered an inexpensive and relatively non-toxic method for producing a variety of silicon-based chemicals from sand or rice hull ash and antifreeze. (J. American Chemical Society)
In a war against the European corn borer, a major pest of sweet corn, Cornell University scientists have found that an army of tiny wasps, released just once and early in the season, can reduce damage to ears of corn by half. (Journal of Biological Control)
Dr. Mike Hilgers loves to take his motorcycle out on the open road. But now he's taking to the Internet to help Honda engineers generate virtual feedback about motorcycle design from real bikers.
After studies spanning more than a decade, scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have become the first to identify and purify hepatic stem cells, progenitor cells capable of regenerating liver and bile duct tissue. (National Academy of Sciences, 10-24-00)
Many companies had logistical nightmares last year with their online sales departments that created headaches for consumers. Researchers in Penn State's Smeal College of Business Administration are helping companies reshape their ordering and delivery departments.
It doesn't matter if consumers are shopping online for hotel rooms, groceries or other products from their favorite artists, consumers are more "value sensitive" than "price sensitive" when it comes to shopping online. (International Journal of Research in Marketing)
If you're selling your house, don't expect to get a better price or sell it faster by listing it with a full commission agent. A recent study co-authored by a researcher in Penn State's Smeal College of Business Administration notes that full commission agents don't sell homes faster or get higher selling prices.
Researchers from Southern Methodist University have offered an explanation for one of the longstanding questions in geology: why "hot spots" on the Earth's surface are located where they are.
There is considerable delay among parents in recognizing when children with advanced cancer have no realistic chance of cure, according to a Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and ChildrenÃs Hospital-Boston study published in the November 15 issue of JAMA.
Results from a multicenter clinical trial headed by researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham show that weight loss induced by Xenical (orlistat) can significantly reduce elevated blood pressure in overweight people.
Reporting at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions, a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs researcher finds that people at risk for heart disease, were four times more likely than others to suffer a myocardial infarction soon after eating a big meal.
Surprise findings by researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham indicate that white stroke patients may have a higher incidence of atherosclerotic plaques than black stroke patients.
Researchers at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore now think they know why some of the people who take aspirin are not protected from heart attacks. Their study shows that in the unprotected patients, high cholesterol is hindering the effectiveness of the aspirin.
Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the University of Southern California have discovered a genetic biomarker that may help doctors to better diagnose and treat cancer of the esophagus. (Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 11-15-00)
Life support systems on the International Space Station provide oxygen, absorb carbon dioxide, and manage vaporous emissions from the astronauts themselves.
At the Geological Society of America's annual meeting, MSU scientists will present research on one of the first watershed-scale studies to measure multiple elements in rivers that reflect surrounding changes in land use - biogeochemical fingerprints left by both humans and nature.
James R. Stewart, diving officer emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, was one of the initial inductees into the NAUI (National Association of Underwater Instructors) Hall of Honor.
Opening China's markets should be a boon to the American economy over the next decade, says a Ball State University economist.
A 1998 study by an Ohio State researcher of 32 Ohio voters in a simulated election found that punch-card voting systems may produce error rates as high as 15 percent for some voters.
The White House announced today that Yuan-Cheng Fung, fondly known as the father of biomechanics, will receive the PresidentÃs National Medal of Science, the nationÃs highest scientific honor.
On Monday, 11/13, Purdue University President Martin C. Jischke called for a national movement by America's universities to establish fellowships to increase the numbers of minority graduate students preparing to be the faculty of the future.
President Clinton today honored twelve renowned American scientists and engineers by naming them to receive the National Medal of Science.
If mouse studies hold true for humans, a daily cup of yogurt or dose of antibiotics may become the first effective treatments for a common and sometimes fatal obesity-related liver disorder, Hopkins scientists report. (Gastroenterology, 11-00)
James family papers on loan to Creighton University reveal the lives of author Henry James and his brother William. What has been written about the family and what has been revealed by the Center for Henry James Studies at Creighton University are very different.
The legendary weight gain sometimes experienced by college freshmen didn't occur for students who took a course in nutritional science.
The diet drug combination fen-phen was removed from the market in 1997 because of its association with heart valve abnormalities. New research reveals cellular events, apparently triggered by the neurotransmitter serotonin, that may explain the disease mechanisms.
Universities nationwide struggle with efforts to diversify their faculties. The University of Redlands found a way by diversifying its curriculum.
The Center for International Business Education and Research welcomes Dr. David Platt as its new director. After 11 years of service, Bob Green, the current director will teach and conduct research at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand.
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